Weekly Announcements for October 31, 2025
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Richmond Friends Meeting Featured by Thee Quaker |
This week, Thee Quaker, the podcast created by New England Friend Jon Watts, featured a gorgeous video about Richmond Friends Meeting as part of their new Quaker Video Project. Check it out!
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Saturday Workday at Catoctin Quaker Camp!
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We will have one last chance to help out at Catoctin this fall coming up this Saturday, and we hope you can join us. We will be doing all of the usual “shutting down for winter” tasks and replacing some of the siding on the dining hall so there will be plenty to do! Join us if you can. Join us Saturday November 1st 9:30 am to 4:00 pm. Lunch will be provided.
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| Join Manual of Procedure Committee on Nov 17
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One of the yearly meeting’s anti-racist queries is “How will we provide opportunities for those most likely to be directly affected by our decision to influence that decision?” Manual of Procedurecommittee sees inviting folks to attend online committee meetings as a way of providing opportunities. Our next meeting is set for 11/17/2025 at 7:00 p.m.; to get the Zoom information for the meeting, send a message to mop@bym-rsf.org.
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Annapolis Friends Holiday Market, Dec 6
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Join Annapolis Friends Meeting for a Holiday Market, Sat, Dec 6, 9am - 2pm, featuring food, hand-made gifts, and a gently-used market. Come see your favorite AFM Friends and make your holiday shopping count for the greater good! Questions? Email market@annapolisfriends.org.
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| Turkey Con is Nov 21-23 @ Frederick Meeting
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Young Friends (high school) will gather for the beloved "Turkey Con" the weekend of Nov 21-23 at Frederick Friends Meeting. Come give thanks for good food and beloved community with Young Friends from around our Yearly Meeting!
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Cripping Waiting Worship: Unlearning the Silence Around Ableism, Nov 9 |
BYM Friends are invited to join a special program at Beacon Hill Friends House in Boston online via Zoom on Nov 9 at 1:30pm. Cripping Waiting Worship: Unlearning the Silence Around Ableism will explore the intersections of disability justice, disability theology, and Quaker spirituality. Drawing from personal experience growing up within the Religious Society of Friends, Greg Woods will reflect on the pervasive silence around disability within faith communities and the need to unlearn ableism embedded in our practices of worship, care, and community.
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| Seeking a Just Peace in Israel/Palestine, Nov 23 @ Bethesda Meeting
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Join Bethesda Friends Meeting on Nov 23 at 12:30pm in-person or online for an event with Steve Chase (FMW). Steve will speak with Bethesda Friends about his individual and FMW's discernment journey towards joining the Apartheid-Free Communities coalition and working for a truly just peace in Israel/Palestine. Anyone in the Baltimore Yearly Meeting Community is welcome to join us in person or on Zoom. Meeting for Worship is at 11:00am. The lecture will begin at 12:30pm on the same Zoom link as Worship.
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